11: Settling Into London in VS .NET

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The City of London is a self-governing entity extending south from Chiswell Street to the Thames The area is bounded to the west by Chancery Lane and to the east by the Tower of London, its most important historic monument Fleet Street, the former heart of newspaper publishing, cuts through the center of the district to Ludgate Circus, where it becomes Ludgate and leads to St Paul s Cathedral Built on top of the original 1 square mile the Romans called Londinium is an area called The City Today, this area is the Wall Street of England, home to the Bank of England, the Royal Exchange, and the Stock Exchange The major Tube stops are Blackfriars, Tower Hill, St Paul s, Liverpool Street Station (the main rail terminus in this area), Bank, Barbican, and Moorgate

The West End (that is, west of The City) may be loosely called downtown London For most people, the West End is synonymous with the theater, entertainment, and shopping areas around Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square But the West End actually includes a host of neighborhoods: Holborn: Abutting the City of London to the west, the old borough of Holborn serves as the legal heart of London Barristers, solicitors, and law clerks scurry to and fro among the Inns of Court, Lincoln s Inn Fields, Royal Courts of Justice, and Old Bailey This inbetween district is bounded roughly by Theobald s Road to the north; Farringdon Road to the east; the Thames to the south; and Kingsway, Aldwych, and Lancaster Place to the west The major Tube stops are Holborn, Temple, and Blackfriars The Strand and Covent Garden: The northern section of The Strand, the area west of Holborn, is Covent Garden, with Shaftesbury Avenue as its northern boundary The Strand, a major street running from Trafalgar Square to Fleet Street, is the principal thoroughfare along the southern edge, with Charing Cross Road to the west and Kingsway, Aldwych, and Lancaster Place to the east The major Tube stops are Covent Garden, Leicester Square, and Charing Cross Bloomsbury: Just north of Covent Garden, New Oxford Street and Bloomsbury Way mark the beginnings of the Bloomsbury district Home of the British Museum and several colleges and universities, this intellectual pocket of Central London is bounded to the east by Woburn Place and Southampton Row, to the north by Euston Road, and to the west by Tottenham Court Road The major Tube stops are Euston Square, Russell Square, Goodge Street, and Tottenham Court Road Soho: The Soho neighborhood occupies the warren of densely packed streets north of Shaftesbury Avenue, west of Charing Cross Road, east of Regent Street, and south of Oxford Street This lively

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area is full of restaurants and nightclubs London s Gay Village centers on Old Compton Street The major Tube stops are Leicester Square, Covent Garden, and Tottenham Court Road Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square, and Charing Cross: Think of this area, just west of The Strand, as downtown London or Theatreland Piccadilly Circus, the area s major traffic hub and best-known tourist destination, feeds into Regent Street and Piccadilly Leicester Square and Shaftesbury Avenue, a few minutes walk to the east, house most of the West End theaters From Leicester Square, Charing Cross Road runs south to Trafalgar Square, the National Gallery, and Charing Cross Station The Tube stops are Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square, and Charing Cross Mayfair: Elegant and exclusive Mayfair nestles comfortably between Regent Street on the west, Oxford Street on the north, Piccadilly on the south, and Hyde Park on the west This area is the land of luxury hotels and luxurious shopping The major Tube stops are Piccadilly Circus, Bond Street, Marble Arch, and Hyde Park Corner Marylebone: The neighborhood north of Mayfair and west of Bloomsbury, Marylebone (Mar-lee-bone) abuts giant Regent s Park Marylebone Road runs south of the park Great Portland Street marks the eastern boundary and Edgware Road, the western You may call this area Medical London because it has several hospitals and the famous Harley Street Clinic But perhaps the most famous street is Baker Street, home of the fictional Sherlock Holmes Madame Tussauds wax museum on Marylebone Road draws thousands of visitors The major Tube stops are Baker Street, Marylebone, and Regent s Park St James s: Considered Royal London, St James s is a posh green haven beginning at Piccadilly and stretching southwest to include Green Park and St James s Park, with Buckingham Palace between them and St James s Palace across from St James s Park Pall Mall runs roughly east west into the area and meets the north south St James s Street Regent Street marks the eastern boundary The Tube stops are St James s Park and Green Park Westminster: East and south of St James s, Westminster draws visitors to Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament, the seat of British government Westminster extends from Northumberland Avenue just south of Charing Cross to Vauxhall Bridge Road, with the Thames to the east and St James s Park to the west Victoria Station, on the southwest perimeter, is a kind of axis for Westminster, Belgravia, and Pimlico (see the next two listings) The Tube stops are Westminster, St James s Park, and Victoria Pimlico: The pie-shaped wedge of London extending west from Vauxhall Bridge Road to Buckingham Palace Road is Pimlico Crowning it to the north is Victoria Station; the Tate Britain gallery,